Osborne Public-Private Partnerships

Theory and Practice in International Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-61505-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

Public-Private partnerships are an increasing aspect of the delivery of public policies and services across the world. This book is the first to draw upon a range of disciplines to offer theoretical perspectives upon their analysis as well as a range of case-studies of their management from around the world. It also offers a number of frameworks for the evaluation of their management. This book will be of interest to students of public policy and public management, whether at the undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osborne, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Understanding public - private partnerships in international perspective: globally convergent or nationally divergent phenomena? Stephen P Osborne

Part I Understanding public - private partnerships

1. The theory of partnerships - why have partnership? Ron McQuaid

2. Public - private partnerships: sectoral comparisons Peter Carroll and Peter Steane

3. Public - private partnerships. Rethinking the boundary between public and private law Gavin Drewry

4. Understanding the process of public - private partnerships Stephen P Osborne and Vic Murray

5. Governing public - private partnerships. Analysing and managing processes and institutional characteristics of public - private partnerships Erik-Hans Klijn and Geert Teisman

Part II Understanding and contrasting public contexts for public - private partnerships

6. Public - private partnerships in the United States: historical patterns and current trends Lynne Moulton and Helmut K Anheier

7. Public - private partnerships and the 'new Labour' government in Britain Peter K Falconer and Kathleen Ross

8. The East Asia region: do public - private partnerships make sense? Richard Common

9. The decline of the Leviathan: state, market and civil society in South-east Asia Gerald Clarke

Part III Public - private partnerships in international perspective: practice and management

10. Public - private partnerships in the European Union. Officially suspect, in daily practice embraced Geert Teisman and Erik-Hans Klijn

11. Transforming the state into a partner in cooperative development. An evaluation of NGO - government partnership in the Philippines Teresa S Encarnacion Tadem

12. The propensity, persistence and performance of public - private partnerships in Sweden Sven-Olof Collin and Lennert Hansson

13. Partnerships in Pittsburgh: the evaluation of complex local initiatives Brian Jacobs

14. Rural Action for the Environment in the UK: developing partnerships and promoting learning through networks Mike Tricker

15. Building 'active' partnerships in aid-recipient countries: lessons from a rural development project in Bangladesh David Lewis

16. Partnership between local government and the local community in the area of social policy: an Hungarian experience Gyorgy Jenei and Anna Vari

Part IV Evaluating public - private partnerships

17. Evaluating the impact of public - private partnerships: a Canadian perspective Vic Murray

18. What makes partnerships work? Chris Huxham and Siv Vangen

19. NGO partners: the characteristics of effective development partnerships John Hailey

Conclusions A one-way street or two-way traffic? Can public-private partnerships impact upon the policy making process? Kathleen Ross and Stephen P Osborne